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70 -- ACQUISITION OF SECURE COTS VESSEL MONITORING SYSTEM SOFTWARE SOL 52-DDNF-9-90008 DUE 090898 POC POC: Aileen Redding, Contract Specialist (301-713-0839) E-MAIL: Click here to reach the Contract Specialist., Aileen.B.Redding@agf.noa.gov. 70 -- The Department of Commerce/National Marine Fisheries Service/Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) has a requirement for a secure COTS vessel monitoring system software product. This procurement will be conducted as a commercial acquisition under FAR Part 12. The requirement was identified from ten years of VMS experiments; NMFS fisheries regulations, legal concerns, law enforcement practice, agency-wide and international coordination, and scaleability. VMS infrastructure and security are important strategic first steps in a national system. OLE intends to establish a host server and provide client access in nine or more locations. This software product will contain two separate facilities: a front door gateway for communications that integrates cleanly and openly with VMS and a host server and user interface that allows workstation clients to perform VMS functions. Minimum mandatory requirements include the following: A Communications Gateway that (1) receives Inmarsat-C data, (2) incoming data from any communications carrier are securely archived to comply with "best evidence" handling procedures, and (3) "near real time," store 'n forward position data is automatically processed from the communications gateway, without user assistance, and position data imported into the NMFS VMS in a delimited standard format; A VMS interface that communicates with (1) Mobile Earth Station (MES) hardware Trimble Galaxy TNL7001, via Inmarsat LES, to receive data reports, download DNIDs and send poll request, and (2) with MES hardware Thrane & Thrane 3022D Fisheries, via Inmarsat LES, to receive data reports, download DNIDs and send poll request; The VMS Functional Analysis and Specifications require (1) all dates in VMS are year 2000 compliant and include the century, (2) all time in VMS DBMS, host server and clients are Greenwich Mean Time, (3) data in error (i.e. from non-VMS-registered boats) are rejected and written to an error file -- with an error message to a VMS system log file, (4) seamless handling of data (zones, vessel track lines) at the International Date Line 180 degrees W / 180 degrees E, (5) configuring the VMS to have levels of security and discretionary control of data or user interface objects based on role, (6) to identify and authenticate the VMS access with user logon and secure encrypted password at VMS client, server and DBMS, (7) full explanation of the security model for the entire system configuration -- including operating system, backups, raw data archives, database, server and client -- addressing whether product is "B1" compliant or certified (Reference DoD Orange Book (DOD 5200.28-STD) and Yellow Books (CSC-STD-003-85 & 004-85), and (8) written description of VMS procedures and techniques for alerting user to alarm events, such as visual, audible, lists, workflow, email, etc. A combination fixed price and time and material contract with a maximum contract duration of 24 months is contemplated. Requests for this solicitation must be submitted in writing to the address above. Posted 08/07/98 (W-SN234277). (0219)

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